Scale Quotes
1006 quotes by 865 authors
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Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any…
— Albert Allen Bartlett
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The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary…
— David Korten
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The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and…
— Jonathan Schell
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As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down…
— Caroline Myss
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its…
— Primo Levi
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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of…
— William S. Burroughs
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Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
— Friedrich Schiller
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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.
— Harley Pasternak
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of…
— Karl Marx
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
— Muhammad Ali
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When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of…
— Charles Eisenstein
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Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.
— Andrew Graham-Dixon
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is…
— J. C. Kumarappa
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You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of…
— Jeremy Irons
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My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue…
— Christian Slater
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While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have…
— Daymond John
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All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan, isn't it? With…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
— Ron Silver
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Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
— William J. Clinton
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